An account of several late voyages and discoveries

'ln Tbe Sctond l' arl of ,he 'Poy11ge When on the 18th of Jm,e, on a S1111d 41 ¡ 1he forenoon, we firft carne to the Foreland Spit,z,bergen; the foot of thefcMounrains looke like fire, and the tops of thcm were covered wi toggs; the füow was marbel'd, and Jook'd if it were boughs or branches of Trees, ga"e as bright and g]orious a fuining or glofs the Air of Skies, as if the Sun had fhin'd. When the Mountains look thus fiery, a fiorm genera l1 y enfues. Thefe Countries are in the Wintcr ene paífed with Ice from divers places, accordi as the winds blow; as if it be Eaft from N .~e1JJb!,t, if North-wefi from Grce11lancl, a the l(]and of Jnhn A1"yetz: it alfo happe fometimes that the Land is begirt with Ice in 1 Summer, as they hne often (een, that go 1' ther every year. But w hen t he Ice comes floating on too h:ir or in too great a quantity, then the Ships m to the Harbours, Ha"ens, Bays or Rh•trs, they can them, that run up into the Country the wind ufeth to receive us fomething unkin ly, when we foil imo them, roaring over dry Hills with fmall Whirl•winds. The wa in thefe Rivers is falt. We meet here with no frefh Streams or Ri lets ; nor d id I ever fee a Spriog there. Of fome R.ivers we know their beginning, cthers ir cannot be found out, becaufe of danger of che Ice, w hich they are never ~ from; fome becaufe of the hidden Rock, derneath the water, which are di[covered t